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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Election at PbiIa,IeInhia.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 1s.-At the local cleo
ton yesterday neither ticket was entirely
satisfactory and the papers were not united
in the support of their party candidates, the
result being large amount of scratching.
The city on straight party vote is Repub-
lican by from u. 600 to ., 900. Returns from
fourteen of the thirty-one wards in the city
give Filter, Republican. for mayor, Il ma
lOrlty of y ,293; and Clay, Republican, re-
ceiver of taxes, IDS. Careful estimates
at midnight place Filters majority at $4,000
and Clay's at from 5000 to 10000. War
wick, Republican, for city solicitor is run
ming ahead of the ticket and will probably
have between 10000 and $4,000 majority.
Owing TO the extensive scratching the re-
tn ms are coming in slowly
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
CHI cAco eooDtERs.
Desperate Attempt to Steal Records-A
Timely Arrival Prevents 1t.

Desperate attempt to Steal Records-A
Timely Arrival Prevents 1t.
CHICAGO, Feb. 17.-State's Attorney Grin
nell and his assistant Furthman spent yes
terday afternoon in Special Counsel Wieg-
ley's Office on business connected with
charges against the county commissioners
At about six o'clock they went ont to sup
per and Wiegley went home and a few
clerks only remained in the office. They
had been gone but few minutes when six
men-one claiming to be constable uwent.
up by the elevator and demanded admit
lance. They produced warrant for the
arrest of ''Nlc'' Schneider on the charge OF
embeZzlement, sworn out by his brother
John. He is the hoilermaker who was
awarded some of the fat contracts com
planned about, and has been missing for sew
eral days. The men scarcely stopped to
look about the room, but went direct to the
vault, which was locked. When they were
demanding that it be opened States Attor-
ney Grinnell, Mr.. Furthman and their
friends returned. The argument that en-
sued was sharp and the intruders
were hustled off the premises. II is
stated that the real object of the party
was to secure the books of evidence
against the boodlers, which it was thought
might be in Mr.. Wiegley's Office. Mr..
Furthman intimated that developments
had reached stage when a more daring
attempt than that just described to frus-
trate the plans of the State would not be a
matter of surprise. 1t was definitely
learned last night that Mic Schneider,
the contractor, was in custody and now a
willing prisoner. He has told enough to
show that certain county commissioners re-
ceived money from HIM and that the paid
employees of the county benefited by his
contracts. Where Schneider has been Sc
creted by the States attorney is still
mystery. The arrest appears to have been
made without a warrant and was in reality
an abduction, but as the mans books were
seized at the same time, he was at the
mercy of his captors and has succumbcd.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Breeding PauDers.

New YORK, Feb. 1.-THE first official ace
of Mayor Hewitt to attract general atten-
ton was his veto of an ordinance permit
ting Mrs. Clcmentine LaMadrid to erect
booths at certain street corners from which
to supply food at the cost of one cent per
article. Hewitt declares that in his
opinion the tendency of the proposed plan
for furnishing cheap meals would be TO
demoralze the poor. Though he is in
formed that there are about 1900 per-
sons in the city who have no regular homes
and who depend upon chance fortheir daily
bread, public policy requires that the num-
Der OF such persons should, if possible, be
diminished and not increased. Such agen-
cies as free soup kitchens and cheap food
booths would, in his opinion, increase idle
ness and poverty. He is also informed that
the charitable organizations of this city are
sufficient for the existing distress.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Revival in shipbuiIdinG.

WAsHINGToN. Feb. 1.-THE Arrow
Steamship and Ship Building Company, of
New York City. has purchased the Agnew
ship yard at Alexandria, Va, and will be-
gin ship building operations there on q
large scale. The first vessel to be built
will be called the Pocahontas. This will
be one of the most elegantly fitted ocear
passenger vessels in the world. and the
design of the company is to have her
able to run across the ocean at an average
speed of twenty-three nautical miles
hour, no matter what may be the condition
of the wind or sea. She is to be completed
and ready for sea before November /.
There are to be twelve vessels of uliis class
built; the next one to be called the Pow
hatan, and the others will also bear historic
Indian names. The fleet will be engaged
in the English trade running from New
York to Liverpool, touching at Queenstown
as the other lines do now.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
BOSTON CORBETT.
The Slayer of Wilkes Booth Has Another
Crazy Spell-He Clears Out the House.

The Slayer of Wilkes Booth Has Another
Crazy SpelI-He Clears Out the House.
TOPEKA, Feb. 16.-Yesterday morning
Boston Corbett, assistant doorkeeper of the
lower House, who has attracted much at
tention here as the slayer of Wilkes Booth,
anu who for some time past has been at
tending the sessions lof a branch of the
Salvation Army which has lately been
established here, arrived at the House
about eight o'clock and worked along
all right for a short time, but when several
colored men who were working near him
began laughing he drew a knife and made
for the nearest man. In moment the room
was cleared and Corbett was left master of
the situation. The sergeant-at-arms then
attempted to obtain an explanation of his
conduct, but in reply Corbett drew re-
volver and warned the official to stand off.
During the entire morning Corbett paced up
and down the gallery with revolver in his
hand, and no one dared to approach him.
At noon two police officials succeeded in
getting near enough to Corbett ~
grapple with him. He was then dis
armed and taken to the city Jail. An
effort will be made to have the unfortunate
man incarcerated in an insane asylum,
it is generally thought he is crazy. The
sergeant-at-arms has discharged him. This
is not the first time that Corbett has con-
Quoted himself into his kind of style.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Montana Cattle Losses.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 17.-H. E. Simpson,
postmaster at Albright, Mont, writes as
follows: Cattle on the ranges are dying by
the thousands. The winter has been COM
paratively mild, but we have not had any
chlnooks that we generally have.
Large numbers of native steers
have been driven into the bottoms
by the storms and are dying like
lies. For days range cattle have been COM
.ng into the valley by the thousands, wan
aering back and forth and until they drop
IN their tracks" a stock man of eighteen
years experience writes from Billings:
This is tie hardest winter 1 ever expert
enced. estimate my cattle loss at fifty per
cent. row and think II vii be seventy fye.''
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
The Iowa Prohihitorv Law.

KEoKUK, Iowa, Feb. 16.-In the District.
Court Judge Casey has made an important
decision in two cases under the Prob bitory
law of Iowa. In one Jacob Ohler was in
dicted by the grand jury ut Keokuk for
keeping and maintaining a nuisance and III
the other he was charged with selling, lille
gally, Intoxicating liquor upon eight differ
ent occasions. He was convicted on all the
charges before Justice Bell and fined 800,
from which decision he appealed TO the Dis
trict Court. Charles J. Dodge, of Burling
ton, appeared as counsel for Ohler, and
raised the question of jurisdiction under the
Did act of the First General Assembly. IN
1913. which divides the criminal jurisdiction
Of Lee County, assigned certain townships
to KeolSuk and others 70 Fort Madison. The
0ffenses having beer committed in the Fort
Madison district, Judge Casey, in very
able opinion, decided the plea interposed By
Dodge as good, and discharged Ohler in
both cases
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Railroad Rack lake,

CINCINNATI, Feb. 1-.-County Auditor
Raine, in consultation with States Attorney
General KohIe and State Auditor Kiese-
wetter to-day concerning the tax valuation
TO be placed on the "Big Four and Fort
Wayne railroad stocks, both subject to
back taxes since 1881, held that the tax rate
on the 'sBig Four about sixty-nine and on
Fort Wayne one hundred, which would be
thirty per cent. below market questions.
The penalties will be knocked off. On this
basis the Reuben Springer estate must pay
fully $50, 200 on 1000 shares of sBig Four''
and 200 shares of Fort Wayne held since
1887 untaxed- Other large holders will con-
tribute their thousands 10 swell the aggre-
gate. Tax Collector Morgenthaler ge.s
twenty five per cent. for collecting.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
A Worried staff.

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 1S.-The increasing
lack of high discipline in the Knights of
Labor and the failure of the various dis
trict assemblies to keep close to the sug-
gestions of the general master workman
and his board have made Powderly feel
anxious and worried all his Heutenants. It.
is now certain that Powdcrly and his
executive aids will soon direct their atten-
ton to curing these troubles. Most OF
them exist the worst in the West, and most
of all in Chicago. Powderly said yester
day that his views on the subject of boy
colts were well known, and also OF the
members of the executive board, who de-
clarcd that the boycOtts against Phil Ar
mour and others in Chicago were totally
unauthorized.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
Great Silk Strike Expected.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-There Is a strong
probability that the city of Paterson, n. j.,
whose industry IS IN its score of silk mills,
will soon experience a lockout that will
close every one of these mills and throw
l., 0O0 men. women and children odt Of en-
ployment The strike arises from the strike
of about 800 silk dyers now in progress,
but the question involved is more than the
SIMPLE one of wages and hours as between
these men and their employers The silk
manufacturers of Paterson are evidently
acting with common purpose and under
common stimulant, and that purpose ~ TO
TEST, once Tor all, whether the entire silk
industry in Paterson is to be handed over
TO the Dictatorship of the Knights Of Labor
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
DYNAMITERS ARRESTED.

Two Men Arrested i'm San Francisca,
Charged With the Late Dynamite Out
RACES.
SAN FRANCIsco, Feb. 1T.--The police yes
terday arrested j. E. Stiles and II. G. Dean
as the perpetrators of the recent dynamite
outrages on the Suffer and Geary street
cable lines. The former was captured
early yesterday morning while his way
to put dynamite on a track. The police had
spotted HIM and were shadowing his house
when he emerged at 4:30 yesterday morn
ing, and was closely followed by four
detectives, who ordered him to stop. Ten
shots were fired after him, but none struck
him. He was finally captured by running
into the arms of policeman from the oppo-
site direction. While fleeing Stiles was
seen to throw something over q fence into
the garden of a residence. This was
recovered and proved TO be a dynamite
bomb ready to be placed on car
track. A quantity of dynamite and caps
were also found on his person, and materials
for making bombs were later found in his
house. Dean was suspected by the police,
and Immediately after Stiles arrest search
was made in Deans house and quantity
of dynamite and other bomb material found.
He was arrested. Stiles claims he had no
intention of placing dynamite on the track,
but had left the house Of friend, Williams,
whom he had agreed 10 accompany and as
sist. He added that it was his intention 10
obtain sufficient evidence against Williams
to convict him of the crime and then expose
him to the authorities and gain the reward
offered for the apprehension Of the dyna-
miters. The police, however, place no faith
in Stiles story. Dean denies all knowledge
of dynamite plots, and processes utter ig-
norance regarding how the bomb material
found in his house got there. Both are
striking car men.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
SHOOTING AND LYNCHING.
A Mob Avenges the Shooting of a Texas
Deputy Sheriff by a Negro.

Deputy Sheriff by a Negro.
NARAsoTA, Tex, Feb. 16.-Information
reached this city this morning of the shoot
ing and mortally wounding last Monday
of Deputy Sheriff Upchurch by a brutal
negro named Jim Richards, at Bedias, in
the eastern portion of this county, thirty
miles from here, near the Madison County
line. Upchurch had Richards under arrest
on a charge of theft, and the latter, watch
ing his opportunity, jerked Upchurchs
pistol, large navy six, from it's
scabbard and inflicted the fatal
wound, the ball entering his
bowels, passing entirely through the
body. ranging downward and coming out
below the thigh The victim is still alive,
but the physicians pronounce the wound
fatal. Richards was knocked down and
captured by parties present and placed IN
der guard. News of the unprovoked and
dastardly crime spread through the county
like wildfre. Indignation among the
friends of Upchurch increased as rapidly
as the news was told, and about shutdown
Monday evening over seventy-five masked
men armed to the teeth took Richards from
the custody of the guards and swung him
to neighboring tree. Upchurch was
good officer and stood high wherever known
and has wife and child.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
THE EAST.

AT meeting at the Ttusville (Pa) Oil
Exchange recently resolutions were adopted
that it was the sense of the meeting that
the excessive charges and tolls imposed
upon the crude petroleum by the pipe lines
worked serious injury to producers and re-
finers and the Legislature was asked to re-
duce the charges and tolls OF the pipe lines.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
THE SOUTH.

Two men weee killed in Russellville,
Ark, yesterday by the collapse of a barn
on which they were working.
THREE colored prisoners were burned to
death in the Jail at Murfreesboro, Tenn. re-
Gently.
s. &. KPIEGER, gloves and fancy goods
New Orleans, has made cesSion of prop
erty to his creditors, with $4,000 assets
and S73, 900 liabilities.
THE life OF Governor Richardson, OF South
Carolina, was endangered recently by a
| negro mailman who demanded money or
blood. On the segro being arrested loaded
revolver was found on his person.
THE wholesale dry goods and boot and
shoe house of Block, Oppenheimer & Co.,
of Galveston, Tex, has failed. Liabilities,
S75O,OO0.
AT the Brasfield trotting horse sale at
Lexington, KY, recently, sixty-four horses
brought 81, 2S5. The best price was So 800
| paid for the bay stallion c. f. Clay.
THE Dairymen and Fruit Growers con-
vention of the United States assembled in
jackson, Miss, on the 10th.
| THE Senate Committee investigating the
alleged election intimidation in Washing
ton County, Texas, examined several ne
groes and Republicans on the 10Th. One
| witness swore that only four or five voters
could write and they Were Democrats.
JUDGE THOMAS NJ. JOSEPH, of Galveston,
Tex, late grand treasurer of the Texas
| Odd Fellows, has confessed that he embez-
zled So, 1S5, the total funds of the grand
| lodge and lost them in mining speculations.
PROF. E. Z. BARNARD, of the Vanderbilt
University at Nashville Tenn, announces
the discovery of another comet. It was
very faint and was moving rapidly in a
| northwesterly direction. Its direction was
In right ascension hours minutes and 10
seconds, declination south 10 deg. 10
minutes.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24
GENERAL.

THE Spanish Government has assented to
the financial autonomy of the Basque
provinces on the basis of their contribution
of fifty per cent extra to the exchequer.
1T is reported from India that the Chinese
have invaded Northern Burmah
ADvICEs from Zanzibar state that the
Sultan has refused to comply with the de-
mand of the Portuguese Governor of Mo
zambique to surrender the territory claimed
by Portugal. and has referred the matter
to friendly powers. Portugal has, on this
account, rnptured diplomatic relations with
the Sultan
GENERAL FAIRCHILD, commander of the
G. A R., has called upon all posts to act at
once in favor of the Dependent Pension
bill
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
) a Statue 10 BrecAinridgs.

Valentine, the Virginia sculptor. has
just completed at Richmond g model for
u statue of John c. Breckenridge,
TO be set up in Louisville, XIV.
The figure is eight feet high, and
viii be cast in bronze. According tc
the Dispatch the subject is represerte5
as standing ard II the act of making q
speech. The besrIng is erect and limos
ing, though not stiff, and suggests
consciousness Ct pow er TO commsnC
attention. The left foot is advanced.
the weight OF the body being on the
right leg and the left hand, which latter
rests on drapeG column. The right
arm IS extended, the hand being
open, with the palm upward The
general effect is one of noble grace
the grace Of On orator who has lust
rounded off some brilliant sentence
and has paused for an instant in both &C
ton and speech. The head is boldly anG
strongly modelled yet evidences the
greatest delicacy Of touch, and the
expression of the face is in
stinct with Thoughts that breathe snC
words that burn" 1t takes but little
stretch of imagination to conceive the
possibility OF the figures stepping for
ward in order TO repeat and empha-
size. The dTapeTy, which in 8 fig
ure dressed as is the Breckinridge
always presents great difficulties. has
been manipulated with enviable success
and with the most faithful attention TO
detail. There is not a line in il that is
not graceful, not to say soft
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
TIE PRINCESS, HALg.CRowN.
How a Little Daughter of England Paid
for a Stick of Chocolate.
Manrharfnr Guardian

Manchester GUARDIAN.
4 crowd thr0Dged King Cross Station,
London, the other day to witness the de-
parture of H. r H., the Prince of Wales
and his family, and his family for Sand
bingham, ami were gratified by little
unrebearSed effect, as well as proof that
royalty is not altogether exempt from
thst frequent falling Of the masses-a
pencnsnt for goodies" The mys-
ferrous automatic box which
yields up sticks of chocolate in return
for the insertion of q penny was the
object of special attention from II. Il. IL.
Princess Maud of Wales, whose approach
inc continuation few days after may
have accounted for the abstraction which
led the young lady to pop hRlf-crown
into the fatal slit in place of the humber
copper.
The mistake was discovered as the coin
slipped from her tiugers, and so genuine
and unaffected was the horror eX-
pressed in the exclamation, "Ohi
my half-crown." that the ap-
preCiGtive bystanders were sympathetic
ally silent till the Prince of Wales, with
twinkle in his eye, grsvely advised his
youngest daughter to square matters by
the insertion of the now unpassable
French pennies on future occasions. 4
burst Of hearty laughter and cheering en-
sued, during which young Princess Maud,
blushing furiously, refreshed TO the rail-
way carriage.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

The Peoples palace, opened by the
Queen with imposing ceremonies on
Saturday, owes its origin to Walter
Besant, who suggested the idea in his
novel, Gan Sorts of Conditions of Men. 4"
In a time of such political strife, when
party feeling is ct fever hest, and Eng
lands welfare approaches a crisis, it is
COnsoling to observe this evidence of
strong blood in the old state. Humanity
has not ceased to be ungenerous or IN
thoughtful of the imperial people, or of
their future welfare. Great and noble
philanthropic deeds are yet possible in a
world given up to greed, splendor and
poverty.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

a pamphlet has been published oy q
New Yorker designed to show the world
that the 400th anniversary of the discov-
cry Of America, now only FIVE years ahead
Of us, ought 10 be celebrated, that the
way to celebrate It is by great, grand,
glorious exposition to be held in the out
skirts of New York City, and that the
means are to be obtained by starting
popular subscription, placing books
therefor al all the newspaper Offices in
the country except in New York city, we
suppose. As for New YoTk's contribu-
ton nothing is said, but probably the
metropolis would be willing to turn in
i0r this new project what the country
has gwen US for Grant monument. The
Country would expect as much IS that
from her.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

= new ground for suit against q rail-
way company has Just been established
IN France. A painter named Board while
travelling on the Parls-Lyon road WAS at
lacked by robber and seriously wound
ed. He sued and got damages, the com
pany being held responsible because the
construction Of the cars did not afford
sufficient protection. The judges deCid-
ed that there was 8 genuine contract
between the passenger and the company,
the ticket constituting the written instru-
meIt, and that the railroad people were
bound by it, not only to bring the msn to
his destination, but also TO Afford him
protection during his Journey; snd they
refused TO entertain the question thst the
company were obliged to conform to the
rules of the administration in regard to
the model Of the cars.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

is 5a'-8oss IS SaE{y yy5y tis le- mate haa'mgef
ifszsc a.-3ikc ycf - <ES1l, ard Z soss att
C. WIS 10 "a, f,sonSa5 Is q ladies' car s.
II assto5dthe test eftwcnty years IN relieving Period
cal pam. ,ylso,ing regularity of seasons, and banishing
weakness, is,7e and consequent nervous distress.
Probably ns Der woman in the world receives 50
many Letters Of {. als" as lydia i. Pinsham, Of
Lynn, Mass 2irs. r Of Enfield, y. H., says:
al vilI simply sa that your Vegetable Compound is all
You rccommerd5tte be. L hos done me Hoylis at
g-ri Another ldy writes from Ottawa as follows: 4
have jus, to-day boueAtihe seventh bottle of your Nesc
table Compound, have used Two boxes OF Pills and sew
CT .-sels OF your Sana;ive Wash and think it but
ri ,r5 ytabow much good derived from your mcd
chs. THcr ass 1rsair~ C7E-scqE All the pains
aches have aRyas: disappeared my stomach is much
: aaccr too and fee! myself improved every way
Price IL. sold by nil Druggists.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25
MILLINERY

We have everything that can he sroyrr IN
NEW SPRING Nil lLINERT
N nEs.
Our prices are the lowest, and We fear no
competition.
Our assortment is the largest and most com
plete in the city.
Our Millinery Parlo-s are The largest and
hano some In this section e The stata. and we
c an show goods to better advantage than any
Otler house,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

One Of the editors of the New YORK
Commercial Advertiser has had q curious
experience. When P1u1e Carey died he
wrote an apprecIatiye editorial about the
Carey sisters. That was years ago Re
Gently THIS editor received from contrib
utor, as an original article, this same ed
torial copied verbatim.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-25

A Providence man is issuing some tens
OF thousands of fac SMILES of the Vicks-
burg daily paper which was issued by
Grants soldiers efter the capture Of that
city, having already been put in type by
the regular printers. IL was printed,
as southern papers were in those dsys,
on the PLAIN side of wall paper.
This would net De worthy of note but for
the fact that ia quarter of century or
less the people who ind these forgeries
10 their attics will be Claiming that their
fathers were at Vicksburg and got one of
the only dozen or two copies of the Citi.
zen which were printeE It will be,a
repetition of the UlsAF County Gazette
business. ~